Spirillar Fever in Darjeeling

Spirillar Fever in the Darjeeling District, 1912

/ BV A. M. JUKES, M.D., CAPTAIN, Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Bengal. During the months of September and October 1912, I had the opportunity of commencing the investigation of some cases of fever caused by a spirochete, which I believe to be hitherto undescribed. The materials are very scanty, but sufficient, I think, to enable one to draw some conclusions. In the summer of 1912 there was a go...

Blackwater Fever in Darjeeling-Terai

On the Health of Settlers in the Darjeeling Terai

and the plain, the traveller was warned to traverse it at speed, and to beware of loitering even a single night within its limits, at the peril of a deadly jungle fever. Referring specially to that length of the Terai which fringes the Darjeeling hills, I have 110 difficulty in understanding how it came by its bad name. The vegetation, which covers the hill-sides, runs uninterruptedly into the ...

Liverpool Tropical School

form of "spirillar or spirochetal fever and the well-known European relapsing fever which is due to the S. Obervneirei. Koch had drawn attention to the small number ot parasites in the blood of tick fever cases as contrasted witli the numbers present in cases of relapsing fever Moreover, the attacks and the relapses are of longer duration in the Euiopean fever. The four cases here quoted were a...

The Parasitology of Malaria in the Darjeeling Terai

IC. L. CHOWDHURY, m.b. (From the Section of Medical Entomology, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta.) During 1929 a survey party from tins institution was deputed to collect data relating to the incidence of blackwater fever and malaria in the tea gardens of the Darjeeling Terai, and the following notes are a report on the malarial parasites of the region. Thin films only were prepared from c...